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Re: Win32Lib: Window Icon

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at CNW.COM> Feb 25, 2000
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 19:41:36 -0300, Caballero Rojo wrote:

>Hello Brian,
>      Just use the .ico file when you not compile your program.
>      And when you're going to do it, change the ico file to the
>      executable file =)

Thanks, I realize that.  The point I was trying to make was that when you
bind a program with an icon, and you want that icon to show up in your
application's window, you need a way of saying "use the icon that is
contained in this executable, regardless of what is called".

When I first starting adding icons to bound programs, I was doing something
like:

setIcon( MyWindow, "MyProgram.exe" )

Well, this works fine until you rename "MyProgram.exe"
to "MyOldProgram.exe".  (Now your program won't find "MyProgram.exe" and
won't show it's icon in the window.)  By using 'command_line' to get the
name of your program, you can be assured that the icon will always show up
in your bound app's window.

Unless somebody knew of a better way to do this, I was merely pointing out
a not-so-obvious idea for other users of Win32Lib who want to bind their
programs with custom icons...  (at least it wasn't initially obvious to me
and I just thought that it might be a nice example for the Win32Lib
documentation).

-- Brian